Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Plants are also made primarily with water, so the water in the plant has homeopathic properties as well. The question is what the homeopathic properties of the water in the plants are. If you eat a bowl of grapes, you're consuming not only the grape skin, grape fiber, grape sugars, the phytochemicals, and the phytonutrients, you're also consuming water in the grape, and that water has the vibration of a grape. There's a whole new universe to explore here of what I call vibrational nutrition, or the homeopathy of plants.
Modern science hasn't even scratched the surface on this. |
| The vibration of water from grapes is probably very different than the vibration of water from a zucchini plant, or water from a tomato plant. And there are important questions here, such as how that vibration is altered based on the farming practices. If someone is a corporate farmer so he's only interested in profit and greed, how does that change the homeopathic water properties of the water in the plants, versus a small, organic farmer who loves his plants, and who brings joy and happiness to his garden each and every day? |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 The cell can grow, repair itself, and die on key. plant cells are better at making important compounds. Give a plant cell minerals, sunlight, water, and a safe place to grow, and the lowly algae can make all the vitamins it needs. Animal cells are less versatile in meeting their requirements, but are more adept at using the fruits of the labors of the plant cells. Animals eat other animals and plants, but their major source of nutrients is plant life. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Familia / Family: ANNONACEAE
Partes usadas / plant part used: Semillas - Seeds
Administracion / Administration: Oral
Preparation / Preparation: Cocida - Boiled
Usos / Uses: Resfriados, Durante el parto - Cold, During childbirth
Apio Negro
Apium graveolens L. |
Pam Montgomery
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 This form of shamanism, in which we all have access to spirit in our everyday lives, is what Eliot Cowan, author of plant Spirit Medicine, refers to as "household shamanism." This is not an appropriation of an indigenous culture's customs or beliefs, but rather is a natural progression of human evolution to live within a spiritual ecology. People working and living in this way are not shamans but instead are those who practice in a shamanic way. |
| Now that you have arrived in the underworld, met with your Wise One and called upon a guide, you ask to be taken to where the particular plant spirit you want to work with lives. It is important at this point to continue on in the dreamtime journey with innocent perception, that place of no expectation. Dreamtime journeys can come in many different forms, and it is essential for you to stay open to how it comes to you. So many people expect wide-angle screens in technicolor with surround sound. This is one way but not usually the most predominate. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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| Familia / Family: ASTERACEAE
Partes usadas / plant part used: Hojas, frescas - Leaves, fresh
Administration / Administration: Oral, Topica - Oral Topical
Preparacion / Preparation: Cocida, bafio con 3 cucharas en 21 de agua caliente - Cooked, bath, with 3 tbsp in 21 of hot water
Usos / Uses: Dolor del cuerpo, Dolor del Estomago. Solo para enfermedades criticas - Body pain, Stomach Pain. |
| Familia / Family: ANACARDIACEAE
Partes usadas / plant part used: Hojas y Semillas, fresca - Leaves and Seeds, fresh
Administration / Administration: Topica, Oral - Topical, Oral
Preparation / Preparation: Utilizada como especia, aplicado como emplasto - Eaten as spice or applied as poultice
Usos / Uses: Reumatismo, Especia - Rheumatism, Spice
Cherimoya
Annona cherimola Mill. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Wolfe: It's been shown, for example, when a plant gets a disease. Ultimately, when you analyze the soil that that plant is growing in, there are certain key minerals that are missing, and if you put those minerals in the soil, all of a sudden that plant's disease goes away. You can take that metaphor and draw it out into animals and humans, and you can see what's really the big thing here. Mineral-deficient food is really the ultimate cause of all the food problems that we have today. That's why we have weakling plants that need to be sprayed with pesticides and have artificial fertilizers. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 To avoid excessive dryness, combine the plant with demulcent herbs.
Range and Appearance
Bugleweed is native to Eurasia but is naturalized to North American and can be found growing throughout the northern hemisphere in damp areas with full sun to partial shade. This perennial can achieve a height of 12 to 36 inches. It has lanceolate, parallel leaves. The hermaphroditic flowers are white with a purple spot and are borne in the axils of the leaves.
BUPLEURUM
Botanical Name
Bupleurum chinense (syn. B. scorzoneraefolium), B. falcatum, B. fruticosum, B. |
| The stem stays immersed in water, while the leaves and flowers grow above water level. The plant has three thick leaflets and five-petaled, rose-colored flowers that grow in clusters and have a silky white fringe. The fruits are beanlike capsules.
Buckbean is considered an endangered species in some regions. ment or poultice to treat bruises and snakebite and to stop bleeding.
Edible Uses
The young shoots can be consumed fresh in spring salads. The roots are edible raw or cooked, but they are not very tasty and are considered only a survival food. |
| In vivo studies indicate that the plant exhibits some antitumor activity. It is often used in the treatment of allergic rhinitis, arthritic and rheumatism pain, bronchitis, catarrh, chest colds, coughs, dyspepsia, fever, flu, herpes I and II, tapeworm, and typhoid. Inhaling the vapors is of benefit in cases of catarrh.
The cold infusion is tonic and mildly laxative. The warm infusion is more diaphoretic.
Topically, boneset tea can be used as a wash to lower fever.
Edible Uses
Not generally considered edible, except as tea. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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| Familia / Family: ASTERACEAE
Partes usadas / plant part used: Hojas, frescas - Leaves, fresh Administration / Administration: Topica - Topical Preparation / Preparation: Frotacion externa con Aguardiente y Monte Gallinazo - Rub externally with Aguardiente and Monte Gallinazo
Usos / Uses: Susto, Brujeria, contra el Diablo - Fright / Susto, Sorcery, against the devil
Chin Chil
Tagetes minuta L. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Due to its phallic shape, the plant has long been regarded as an aphrodisiac, which can be seen in its etymology; the Ayurvedic name sbatavari, for example, means "she who has one hundred husbands. |
Pam Montgomery
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| This, of course, is one way to enter the spirit dimension of a plant, but it is certainly not the only way—it is actually more often the exception than the rule. Entering into nonordinary reality—the reality that is simultaneous with the ordinary reality we experience—is a distinguishing feature of shamanic consciousness. Oftentimes this dimension is called the dreamtime and can be experienced as a nighttime dream, a daydream, or a dream journey.
The following is Linda's story of entering the dreamtime. "While taking photos for Pam's book I made a connection with a Maple tree. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Give a plant cell minerals, sunlight, water, and a safe place to grow, and the lowly algae can make all the vitamins it needs. Animal cells are less versatile in meeting their requirements, but are more adept at using the fruits of the labors of the plant cells. Animals eat other animals and plants, but their major source of nutrients is plant life. If there is a deficiency of one of the important nutrients or compounds that the cell needs in order to function, the whole procedure slows or stops. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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| Familia / Family: AMARANTHACEAE
Partes usadas / plant part used: Flores, frescas - Flowers, fresh
Administration / Administration: Topica - Topical
Preparation / Preparation: Fresca o cocida con Flor de Malva y jugo de Sabila, frotada - Fresh or cooked with Flor de Malva and Aloe juice, rubbed
Usos / Uses: Infecciones, Depresion, Higado, Dolor de cabeza - Infection, Depression, Liver, Headache ni fluTr ~£ t r\iyir~r-\ /t-t\/
Moradilla
Alternanthera porrigens (Jacq. |
Pam Montgomery
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| One day, while sitting by the stream and contemplating what felt like a dire financial situation, I asked for a plant to come to assist me. I felt myself slip into a daydream, and imagined what it would feel like to be financially secure. My gaze wandered to Jewelweed, growing most abundantly along the stream. The windless day found one stalk waving energetically at me. I picked one of its leaves and put it in the water, watching as the silvery sheen sparkled. I played with the leaf in the water, aware of its fluid motion, and allowed my consciousness to move into the daydream of Jewelweed. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Animal cells are less versatile in meeting their requirements, but are more adept at using the fruits of the labors of the plant cells. Animals eat other animals and plants, but their major source of nutrients is plant life. If there is a deficiency of one of the important nutrients or compounds that the cell needs in order to function, the whole procedure slows or stops. Just as in a factory that assembles cars, if one vital part does not get delivered in time, the whole plant shuts down. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Also Known As
Afrikaans: boegoe
English: bucco, bookoo, buchu, bucku, diosma French: buchu, diosme
German: buchublatter, duftstrauch, starkduft Italian: diosma
Khoikhoi (Hottentot): bookoo Spanish: buchu Turkish: diozma
Part Used
Leaf
Physiological Effects
Anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, aromatic, astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, digestive, diuretic, kidney stimulant, stimulant, tonic, urinary antiseptic, uterine stimulant, vulnerary
Medicinal Uses
Buchu is widely used by the Khoikhoi (Hottentot) peoples of southern Africa, where the plant grows wild. |
Pam Montgomery
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| Lila, a student of mine, is a lovely woman full of expression with a keen understanding of the workings of plant spirits. I very much enjoyed her in my classes, yet I was aware of an extreme compromise she was carrying that might be inhibiting her ability to embrace her healing path. Her posture was such that her left shoulder would slump so that she always seemed lopsided—her right shoulder up and left one down. During a class with a visiting teacher she was used as an example in a depth perception exercise. |
| After I had spent most of an afternoon working up to this point, I was refused by a plant? (Notice that little prejudice about who's more important? Glad to say I'm smarter than that now.) Daylily told me I was not ready for her gifts. I kept questioning, trying to find out what I was supposed to do. For me, she said she is about finding ecstasy and joy in my sexuality. She told me I needed to work on my forgiveness issues around sexuality. She told me to journey to some past lives to discover what sexual issues I may have brought forward, then come back and see her. |
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| Familia / Family: SALICACEAE
Partes usadas / plant part used: Hojas, frescas - Leaves, fresh Administracion / Administration: Oral
Preparation / Preparation: 1. Cocidas con Aguardiente - Boiled with Aguardiente, 2. Masticada - Chewed
Usos / Uses: 1. Fiebre - Fever, 2. Infecciones - Infections
Chamana
Dodonaea viscosa Jacq. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So let's say maybe I would go to Southern India and research ashwaganda, which is a very high value plant they use in the Ayurvedic system of medicine, and see everything about it -- from how it's grown to how it's prepared, maybe how it's dispensed in clinics, talk with traditional healers, talk with medical doctors, see its use in a variety of settings, really understand, kind of get a global understanding of the plant -- and then translate that knowledge here in the marketplace. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| BAYBERRY
Botanical Name
Myrica cerifera
Family
Myricaceae (Wax Myrtle Family) Etymology
The genus name, Myrica, derives from the classical Greek name for the tamarisk plant, which is a close relative. The species name, cerifa, derives from the Greek keros, "wax bearing. |
Mark Sircus
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 In the absence of these microbes, these minerals become locked up, unavailable to the plant.
Stimulated by the N P K fertilizer, the plant grows, but is deficient in vital trace minerals. In the absence of trace minerals, plants take up heavy metals (such as aluminum, mercury and lead) from the soil. Between 1950 and 1975, the calcium content in one cup of rice dropped 21%, and iron fell by 28.6%.
When trace minerals are scarce in plant bodies they become scarce in human bodies.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Minerals have to be absorbed through the soil, and if they are not present in the soil, then the plant's roots cannot take them up, and therefore they will not be present in the plant.
The nutritional and mineral profile of the plant ultimately depends on the mineral content of the soil. Since soils today are so over-farmed and depleted of all but a few basic minerals, most of our produce lacks the minerals they should contain. For example, a lot of plants absorb selenium when selenium is present in the soil. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Fruta y Cascara de la Fruta, frescas - plant parts used: 1. Flowers, fresh; 2. Fruit without Seeds, fresh; 3., 4. Fruit and Fruit peel, fresh
Administration: 1., 3. Oral, 2., 4. Topica - Administration: 1., 3.
Oral; 2., 4. Topical
Preparacion: 1. Hervir 11 de agua y combinar con 5g de Flores de Limon y 5g cada uno de Manzanilla, Toronjil, Pimpinella, Violeta y Claveles. Dejar la mezcla por 2-3 minutos. Tomar 1 vaso, 3-4 veces al dia por 1 mes o como se necesita. 2. Preparar el Limon sacando la Cascara y Semillas de 3 Limones. |
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